Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer
$48.00 Read moreA richly illustrated look at how travel influenced the work of renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar
Betye Saar (b. 1926) is an artist whose assemblages tell visual stories and convey powerful polit- Author: Greenwald, Diana Seave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0691973857
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Race
$28.00 Add to cartThomas Sowell’s incisive critique of the intellectuals’ destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the r- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0465058728
- Language: English
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Africa’s Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States
$24.95 Add to cartClassic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history
Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed m
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 081957516X
- Language: English
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Sukey and the Mermaid
$8.99 Read moreA mermaid offers a young girl a magical escape in this lushly told and luminously illustrated Coretta Scott King Honor-winning picture book.
Sukey’s new step-pa is a mean, bossy man she calls “Mister- Author: San Souci, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 068980718X
- Language: English
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
$17.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of The Roots’ 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018
“A writer to be reckoned with.” –Roxane Gay
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vo
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062666150
- Language: English
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Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party
$12.99 Add to cartBooklist Editors’ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World
WINNER – International Literacy Association (ILA) – Young Adult Nonfiction
HONOR – 2023 Malka Penn A- Author: Martin, Jetta Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1646144104
- Language: English
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Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
$20.00 Add to cartIt’s time for a black exit.
Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why- Author: Owens, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1982133287
- Language: English
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Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Volume 1
$23.95 Read moreStrange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronic… [more below]
- Series: Strange Fruit #01
- Author: Gill, Joel Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1938486293
- Language: English
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Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
$60.00 Add to cartEntertainment reporter Marcellas Reynolds’s“coffee-table book is the first-ever collection of works devoted to celebrating black models. Fashion devotees will find glorious images of supers such as Im
- Author: Reynolds, Marcellas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1419736140
- Language: English
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Mirror
$21.99 Read moreAn innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel day in the life of two families: one in a Western city and one in a North African village.
Somewhere in Sydney, Australia, a boy and his fami- Author: Baker, Jeannie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0763648485
- Language: English
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Rainbow Joe and Me
$11.95 Add to cartA girl learns the power of imagination from her blind neighbor.
Eloise likes colors. Her friend, Rainbow Joe, likes colors, too. But Rainbow Joe is blind, so Eloise tells him about the colors she mixes
- Author: Diaz Strom, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1584300507
- Language: English
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
$28.00 Add to cartA Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson’s st
” Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth.”–Rolling Stone- Author: Anderson, Annye C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0306845261
- Language: English
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Rosa: (Caldecott Honor Book)
$9.99 Add to cartFifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This tribute to
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0312376022
- Language: English
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Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom
$19.95 Read moreGold Nautilus Book Award Winner
Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative American Buddhism. With- Author: Giles, Cheryl A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1611808650
- Language: English
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The True West: Real Stories about Black Cowboys, Women Sharpshooters, Native American Rodeo Stars, Pioneering Vaqueros, and the Unsun
$19.99 Read moreA 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Book from the Children’s Book Council and National Council for the Social Studies
“Especially and unreservedly recommended for family, elementary school, middle sch
- Author: Luong, Wiliam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1733633510
- Language: English
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Empowered Black Girl: Joyful Affirmations and Words of Resilience (Book for Black Girls Ages 12+)
$15.99 Add to cartEven strong, fearless, and badass Black women need affirmations!
- Series: Badass Black Girl
- Author: Fievre, M. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1642505609
- Language: English
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Negative Money
$14.95 Add to cartFinalist for the New England Book Award
From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and em- Author: Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767536
- Language: English
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Concentrate: Poems
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins–a fifteen-- Author: Taylor, Courtney Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452103
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
$29.95 Read moreNo one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental imp
- Author: Sutton, Angela C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888444
- Language: English
